Populating Documents in a Document Library

Overview

Uploading a Document

Access the Shared Documents library from [Site Actions] and then [View All Site Content]

From within your document library, click [Documents] on the action bar and then [Upload Document] in the ribbon

In the Upload Documents window, click [Browse] and browse to a file you want to upload

Select the file and click [Upload]

{Optional} In the Upload Documents section, uncheck the [Add as a new version to existing files] if you already have this same named document in your library and you do not want to make this a new version of that same document

{Option} In the Version Comments section, enter some version comments

You have successfully populated your document library!

Uploading Multiple Documents

***To upload multiple documents at once, you must be using Internet Explorer.***

Open your portal site in Internet Explorer.

Go to [Site Actions] and then [View All Site Content].

From within your document library, click [Documents] on the action bar and then click the bottom half of the [Upload Document] button in the ribbon to see a dropdown of choices.

Select [Upload Multiple Documents]. NOTE: This button may be grayed out, in which case you will receive this message “This control is currently disabled” as shown below.

This is a feature which is a client integration component, which is available on machines with an installed Office 2010 client. So if you have a Windows 7 PC and Office 2010 installed you get the following:

The first time you navigate on the Document Library you get asked about a ActiveX Control Object